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Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ecml-south-disruption-ole-down-09-12.259086 Been a lot of these, especially on the ECML, it's got me wondering - now please remember I am just a layman passenger, so this is almost certainly a deeply stupid question, please don't...

Hi - I want to renew my Railcard (26-30) because it expires tomorrow. I paid for and stored my current Railcard with the Railcard app, but I want to take advantage of the 20% discount with Trainline. My question is can I just renew in the Trainline app or will I need to buy a complete new...

Hi again, I don't know if this is the right forum but I guess it's a trip planning thing. I'm going to Manchester on Tuesday from Newtown, on advance tickets - two singles, one each way. I have a 33 minute connection at Shrewsbury on the way in, and a 40 minute one on the way back - is it ok to...

Hi, I assume this is the right place to put this - does anyone know which trains out of Shrewsbury towards Manchester or Chester at or around 10:20am on weekdays next week (25 April specifically) are Mark 4 or 197-run? And the same for trains arriving from these places before 17:30? Sorry for...

Hi, I don't know where to put this but hopefully this is right. I want to know if the on train WiFi onboard TFW would cope with watching a programme (Final Score football) live on iPlayer (or at least a part of it) ? Thank you :)

Hello, the event at York today has reminded me to ask a question I’ve wanted to ask for ages. I’m not involved in the railway, just an ordinary norm passenger but I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of trains pulling wires down from below. Can anyone explain in non-technical (norm) language...

Hello again, I’m very confused by something I’ve found using NRE tonight. I want to go from Newtown (Powys) to Manchester Piccadilly this Saturday (23 March), & know that the route you’d normally use is Newtown-Shrewsbury-Manchester with one change. Why is NRE giving me a much longer & more...

Yesterday evening at about 17:20, I was on a diverted London-Brighton train that had just passed West Worthing. As I was getting ready to get off at Worthing, my home station, a freight train passed us, heading west on the Portsmouth-bound track. It was hauled by a Colas Rail, couldn’t tell the...

Hello :) I may be going to Reading tomorrow & I vaguely remember you talking about a very good pie shop (Sweeney Todds) in the town. I know its physical location but I'd like to have an idea of how long it takes to walk from there to the station - & if I can expect the pie to stay hot enough to...

Hello :) I have a bit of a question about how you're meant to pay for a London area bus fare from outside London. Those who know buses in Sussex/Surrey will know of the extremely useful Discovery ticket - I'm planning a ride round with one. But, the problem is it involves a trip on the 465 from...

Hello - I'm wanting to sample the 395 as it's meant to be - blasting across Kent at 140mph. I want to know what's the cheapest way of using HS1 from a start at Worthing - I'm sort of thinking a loop of Worthing - Brighton - Ashford - Ebbsfleet - Strood - Tonbridge - Redhill - Gatwick - Worthing...

Take 1: 18/2/17 (yes, I know it's 2 weeks ago, stop sniggering) So, to introduce my attempted trip reports, an admission. These will look a little different to everyone else's reports because...I'm not a basher. Of anything. I don't keep track of what individual train I'm on, I don't keep...

Hello - I intend to go to London from Worthing on Saturday 28 January, leaving at around 09:00 & aiming to arrive back at around 16:00-16:30. I know that the Brighton - Three Bridges section of line is being blocked so, in theory, the train should go Worthing - Arun Valley - Gatwick (indeed...

Hi, on Saturday a couple of weeks ago I was passing through Brighton station when I saw a 700 running the 09:35 Bedford service. Does anyone know if that Saturday service is regularly booked for a 700, & if not, where/when 700s are scheduled to be running tomorrow (8/10), as now I've seen one in...

Can anyone explain what's happening here? http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=KGX&dest=PBO&grpo=1072&rlc=YNG&rte=27&tkt=GDR It appears to be a £13.15 fare for Kings Cross to Peterborough on Virgin East Coast, valid on Saturdays & Sundays. But it doesn't appear on the National Rail fare...

With all the driver sickness/strike problems caused by their war on their staff they're having, and the huge disruption that it's causing, is there any way that the disputes - and the disruption - can end short of GTR going the way of Connex & having their franchise stripped & nationalised? If...

Bit of an unusual question but here goes: I have a TFL-produced leaflet called 'Your guide to bus services from Kingston'. It contains a spider map of the bus routes that serve Kingston, some first & last service info, an index, & a town centre map. What I want to know is, are these available...

As it sounds - which is the quickest way to go from Victoria to Marylebone by tube, & how long would that take? Thanks in advance :)

Does as it says - why is NRE saying that there are no return fares available for this route when all the trains involved are running? It's displaying singles but not returns. What's happening to it?

A question - when getting a ticket from Boundary Zone 6 in London to a destination, what trains can I use it on? Is it good for any train from the London terminus to the destination or are there stop restrictions like with a normal split ticket split at a station?